“You people make me tired,” declared Mabel angrily. “Why are you forever jumping on the Germans? They are in the right and they are going to win.”
“They are not!” This from Shirley. “The English are going to win, and I hope they do!”
“And I hope the Germans win,” declared Mabel.
“Shirley! Mabel!”
Mr. Willing and Colonel Ashton had now taken a hand in the conversation. But both girls were too angry to heed them.
“And just because this man is a German you are all against him. If he were English you would be shaking hands with him.”
Mabel was losing control of herself.
“Why, Mabel,” said Shirley. “You know that is not true.”
“I know it is true,” declared the girl.
Colonel Ashton took her firmly by the arm.